Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-12
A COMPLETE HISTORY.
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labor disturbances and the simultaneous in
auguration of the secretly cherished ''reyolu-
ton the anarchists were a power indeed,
and the police were ignorant of danger. II is
true that the Chicago papers contained timely
intimations of the plots, but owing TO the
peculiar attitude of the high municipal author
tiles, the articles were treated as rank sensa-
tionalism.
Just one day before the time set for the
strikes Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker, slipped
into his lodgings a heavy, suspicious-looking
box, three feet in length. The box con-
tanned large invoice of dynamite. Its
delivery at Lingg's lodgings was the first
immediate preparation for
THE BLOODY RESULT
of FIVE days later. For many weeks previous
Lingg had been purchasing and experiment
ing with dynamite the paid agent of one of
the seven International groups" but subse-
quent events showed beyond any reasonable
doubt that this particular explosive made the
bomb that was heard round the world. The
bomb with fifty others was manufactured by
Lingg under the auspices Of the international
Association. which furnished the money, and
Of which the celebrated defendants were not
members simply but leaders.
Next day, May /, the eight-hour strike
began in earnest, and by nightfall when the
first intelligent estimates were obtainable,
10000 men walked the streets idle Promptly
in the morning. Sunday when the churches
throughout, the city were resounding with
swelling hosannas the stufy little Bohemian
Hall on Emma street was crowded with mem-
bers Of
The LEHR AND WEIR FEREs,
an inner circle of the omnipresent lnterna-
ti0nal. Detailed plans for the near-at-hand
conflict with the police were submitted by
Editor Engel and listened to by Spies, Lieu
tenant. Fischer. These plans were the ones
followed almost to the letter at the haymarket,
but the decision to do so was not reached at
this meeting. Instead it was determined to
take action at another gathering of the Lehr
and Wehr in larger hall and more central
location, to be assembled within twenty -four
hours. This was to be in Greif's Hall,
Monday night May 3.
The Arbeiter Zeitung, of which Spies and
Schwab were the editors and managers,
called together the armed men who were to
engage in this
SPECIFIC CoMPAcT TO MURDER.
The Sunday evening edition, published a
few hours after the Bohemian Hall meeting,
contained this cabalistic legend "Y--komme
Montag Abend." (Y---Come Monday night
This was the summons to the armed sections
to meet. a. they lid, Monday night at Greifs.
The call was pub; shed again Monday after
noon, Indicating the importance of the mat
tiers to come before the meeting. The Sun
day issue of the frbeiter had a significant
article urging quick and immediate action, "
aiding by Hoaday or T0esday the con-
Met must hare reached its highest intensity,
else success piH then be doHbtfut." Almost
before the ink on this could dry, Spies was
at the Sunday afternoon meeting of the Cen
trail Labor MON arranging to have himself
dispatched to McCormick's factory the fol-
lowing day to address the thousands of strik-
ers out along the old Black Road
From the top of freight-car on the prairie
near McCormick's, next afternoon-M Monday
Spies belched into the ears of ~ 900 eI-
cited strikers, mostly foreigners, the hottest
harangue ever uttered by him in public. He
spoke in the German language of which he
is more master even than of English. The
effect of his words was like magic
SOS To MCoRMIcK's :"
was the cry The maddened horde, urged
forward by Spies, Liugg and other daring An
archsts present, rushed at the great factory
like so many wild beasts. They had caught
up powders and clubs on the way, and in an
instant the thousand windows of the factory
were being shivercd in countless fragments.
Then it was that patrOl-wagons, loaded with
police, the horses covered with foam, dashed
through the crowd from behind. ltis admitted
by Spies that he ordered the mob, many of
whom were tiourishing revolvors, to resist the
attempt of the police to quell the riot. OF
course the victors were the police, but that to
Spies, according to his own accounts, was
not of main concern. The blood of working
men had been drawn. and when he satisfied
himself that such IA result was produced, the
Anarchist leader eoolly Withdrew, though the
battle was at its height.
Taking a strcet-car direct to the Arbeiter
Ieitung Office, Spies, after hurried consul
tation with Schwab, Neebe and others, de
cidcd to call the haymarket mass meeting
and then wrote
THE INFAMOUS REVENGE CIRCULAR"
Twenty five hundred copies were issued as
quickly as printers could work. and every
thing was now ripe for the murder-compact
meeting that night in Greif's basement, the
same that had been called by the Arbeiter
Xeitung that day and the day before. In this
connection the exact wording of the circular
especially the latter portion. foreshadowing
the slaughter of the morrow, the fatal eth of
May, possesses peculiar interest. Spies
wrote:
"REVENGE, REVENGE!